Ultima Thule: The Poet And His Songs by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Ultima Thule: The Poet And His Songs that begins with:

As the birds come in the Spring,
We know not from where;... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab cccc dede fgfg hdhd hihi eXeX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10110001 11101 1011110 01001 1011001 101001 1100111 101001 1011001 01001 1011001 101001 1101101 100101 1101001 01001 11001001 11001 00101101 00101 0110101 11111 00110101 101001 11001111 11111 111011101 1010110
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 112
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, and, his are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

    The author used the same word as at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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